E waste prices

[hobo finds]

I have been saving parts form PC's that I have found and broke down. On another scrap metal site several people there buy e waste. Here are some of the prices. I am not sure if they are a good deal or not, but they are more than scrap steel price by me.

Motherboards $3.20 lb
Hard drives .85 lb
Cd/floppy drives .15 lb
Computer memory $11.50 lb
Lithium-ion batteries $1.00 lb
Nickel batteries .35 lb
Computor fans .13 lb
laptops not working $3.00 lb
Power supplys .24 lb
CPU's $7.00 - 65.00 lb (send photo of for price)

[silversaddle1]

Compare

Sorted Boards



Motherboard Grade $4.05 per pound
Gold Finger Cards (PCI,ISA,etc...) $4.05 per pound
Fingerless (trimmed) Cards (PCI,ISA,etc...) $3.55 per pound
Telecom High Grade $4.55 per pound
Mid Grade Green Board $0.40 per pound
Low Grade Brown Board $0.09 per pound
High Grade Cable Board $2.50 per pound
Mid Grade Cable Board $1.50 per pound
Gold Tip Connector Ends (Click to see examples) $2.40 per pound
Gold/Silver/Tin Fingered Memory RAM $14.00 per pound
Fingerless (trimmed) Memory RAM $7.00 per pound
RAMBUS (metal cover) RAM $7.00 per pound
Slot Processors $11.25 per pound
Fingerless (trimmed) Slot Processors $6.00 per pound
Hard Drive Logic Boards $10.00 per pound
IC Chips $5.75 per pound
Clean Gold Fingers $72.00 per pound


Sorted CPU Chips



386/486 $120.00 per pound
Double Side Gold Chips $95.00 per pound
Motorola/Foreign Gold Cap Chips $89.00 per pound
Pentium Pro Gold Cap Chips $85.00 per pound
Cyrix/IBM/VIA Gold Cap Chips $53.00 per pound
Pentium/AMD/Mac Ceramic Chips $38.00 per pound
Black Fiber Chips $37.00 per pound
AMD Aluminum Top K6 $28.00 per pound
Green/Brown Fiber No Metal $19.00 per pound
P4/Mac/Green Fiber Metal Top $8.00 per pound
No Pin Processors $5.50 per pound


Odds & Ends



CD/Disk/Floppy Drives $0.09 per pound
Power Supply Box with Wire $0.34 per pound
Power Supply Box without Wire $0.28 per pound
Mixed Batteries (Li-Ion, etc) $0.00 per pound
Whole Hard Drive with Board $0.85 per pound
Whole Hard Drive without Board $0.40 per pound
Hard Drive Platters $0.35 per pound
Mixed Wire $0.55 per pound
Silver Plated Brass $2.00 per pound
Aluminum Heat Sink $0.50 per pound
Aluminum Copper Heat Sink $0.80 per pound
Copper Heat Sink $2.20 per pound
Cell Phones with Battery $3.50 per pound
Cell Phones without Battery $5.50 per pound
Laptops (working and non-working) $0.75 per pound
Digital Cdls Phones, Answering Machines, Digital Cameras

[hobo finds]

Thanks for the info. Are these prices that you are paying or are they where you take your stuff to? I only have a small amount of E-waste so far

[silversaddle1]

No, these are prices paid by www.boardsort.com. Check them out.

Tell them silversaddle sent you.

[NHsorter]

How do their buy prices compare to what you would get just selling this stuff on eBay? Obviously there are fees involved and extra effort, but I was just curious if anyone knew this off the top of their head to save me a lot of work figuring it out.

[silversaddle1]

Some will sell for more, some less. memory and processors do best on E-bay.

[messymessy]

No, these are prices paid by http://www.boardsort.com. Check them out.

Tell them silversaddle sent you.

Awesome link. Thanks.

[PennyBoy]

No, these are prices paid by http://www.boardsort.com. Check them out.

Tell them silversaddle sent you.

Awesome link. Thanks.

+1, yes, thank you!

[Dr. Cadmium]

$3.00/lb for scrap laptops? I can get you 5,000 lbs easy at that price. Anyone paying that much is assuming there's good parts or resale value. Most of the ones I get are at least 10 years old and/or smashed.

As for that site, most of those prices are very good if you're someone scrapping computers out of your basement. Except for PayPal only, that's not good.

Some of those prices are strangely high, and some are so low they're insulting:

CD/Disk/Floppy Drives $0.09 per pound
Low Grade Brown Board $0.09 per pound
Mixed Wire $0.55 per pound

The first two can be mixed with light iron at many yards and sold for $0.11/lb or more and they're both worth much more than that anyway, and unless one can throw aluminum wire and steel coaxial in the wire category there are too many middlemen involved.

[silversaddle1]

$3.00/lb for scrap laptops? I can get you 5,000 lbs easy at that price. Anyone paying that much is assuming there's good parts or resale value. Most of the ones I get are at least 10 years old and/or smashed.

As for that site, most of those prices are very good if you're someone scrapping computers out of your basement. Except for PayPal only, that's not good.

Some of those prices are strangely high, and some are so low they're insulting:

CD/Disk/Floppy Drives $0.09 per pound
Low Grade Brown Board $0.09 per pound
Mixed Wire $0.55 per pound

The first two can be mixed with light iron at many yards and sold for $0.11/lb or more and they're both worth much more than that anyway, and unless one can throw aluminum wire and steel coaxial in the wire category there are too many middlemen involved.

Please provide a link or contact info to someone or someplace that will pay "much more" for the drives and low grade boards. I have about 3000 pounds of them to sell.

Yeah, that $3.00 per pound for laptops is in high orbit. But if they are paying that, where can I sign up?

[hobo finds]

$3.00/lb for scrap laptops? I can get you 5,000 lbs easy at that price. Anyone paying that much is assuming there's good parts or resale value. Most of the ones I get are at least 10 years old and/or smashed.

As for that site, most of those prices are very good if you're someone scrapping computers out of your basement. Except for PayPal only, that's not good.

Some of those prices are strangely high, and some are so low they're insulting:

CD/Disk/Floppy Drives $0.09 per pound
Low Grade Brown Board $0.09 per pound
Mixed Wire $0.55 per pound

The first two can be mixed with light iron at many yards and sold for $0.11/lb or more and they're both worth much more than that anyway, and unless one can throw aluminum wire and steel coaxial in the wire category there are too many middlemen involved.

Please provide a link or contact info to someone or someplace that will pay "much more" for the drives and low grade boards. I have about 3000 pounds of them to sell.

Yeah, that $3.00 per pound for laptops is in high orbit. But if they are paying that, where can I sign up?

It could be $3.00 per lap top. Not to clear on price sheet. http://easyrecycles.com/index.php/our-prices

[hobo finds]

Its $4.00 per laptop if everything is there. New prices

[saltydecks]

Any suggestions on how to remove the gold teeth from video cards and such?